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Jon Fortt co-anchors Squawk Alley on CNBC, and has covered technology and innovation for more than 15 years. Fortt Knox brings you rich ideas and powerful people. Guests include Intel CEO Br...
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In the late 1990s, Andy Jassy pitched a wild idea to his boss and mentor, Jeff Bezos: What if Amazon developed another business, delivering...

A walk to remember. Apple CEO Tim Cook and President Donald Trump in Texas this week, and it’s a high stakes photo op. They’re at the factor...

I was on the road this week, doing a little tour of California. Three cities in three days. San Francisco Monday, L.A. Tuesday, San Diego We...

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Tech just can’t get away from politics. Senator Elizabeth Warren has a bone to pick with Facebook. Mainly its standards for political ads. A...

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We’ve got a blockbuster hardware announcement this week … from Microsoft. The biggest hardware risk the company has taken since Xbox. Surfac...

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Apple's iPhone extravaganza is still the biggest product event of the year for a simple reason: The iPhone remains the single most successfu...

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Five billion dollars. That’s how much Facebook will have to fork over to the government under a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission...

Here’s the thing: It’s really hard to put a dollar value on the data that you or I deliver to internet platforms. What’s the value of a twee...

Julie Sweet today leads the North American business at Accenture, a global consulting giant. Years ago, she was a high school sophomore with...

Amazon has three people who hold the title of CEO. There's Jeff Bezos, the founder and CEO. Then there are two deputies: Andy Jassy, the CEO...

We’re past Memorial Day, and that means two things: barbecue season, and software season. Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference, WWDC, kick...

Ever get so mad in an argument that you forget what it’s about? Just so focused on the other person being wrong that you forget what your po...

You ever hear about kids taking a gap year after high school? A gap year. It's when they don't go straight to college and don't get a job, t...

Uber had an action-packed IPO that did NOT go the way a lot of people expected. And in the lead-up to that, I got a visit from one of the sm...

Is Endgame just the beginning? Disney has its eyes on the prize in the streaming wars, and now that it’s clocked the biggest movie opening e...

I grew up in Washington, DC in the ‘80s. And 4 out of 5 playground fights ended before they started. Oh, there was plenty of trash talk – na...

John Rogers, Jr. Is Chairman and CEO of Ariel Investments. It has $13 billion under management. It's the largest black-owned investment firm...

This week I spent some time talking to Ginni Rometty, the chairman and CEO of IBM. I've been wanting to do a CNBC and Fortt Knox interview w...

Apple TV Plus. Apple News Plus. Apple Arcade. Apple Card. We still don’t have all the details, like pricing and mechanics, but Apple CEO Tim...

Twenty-five years ago today I was probably really stressed out about the college application and admissions process. Things have arguably go...

Have tech companies gotten so big that it’s bad for the economy? Senator Elizabeth Warren says so. She’s proposing to break up not one, but...

You’ve probably heard of Fortnite. It’s a game and more than a game – a cultural moment that’s swept in with all the force of Pokémon Go, an...

There’s little question that technology – software – is shaping the future of our work, our play, and even how we form opinions. But who is...

So long, New York! Amazon has pulled out of its commitment to build a massive campus and bring 25,000 to 40,000 high-paying jobs to Long Isl...

Facebook is worth almost a half trillion dollars. It has more than 2 billion users who log in at least once a month. It has a famous CEO, Ma...

Apple this week pulled a Facebook app from the App Store. It’s called Facebook Research, and its purpose was to let Facebook watch everythin...

He did this the hard way – grew up playing guitar in a band, skipped college, became an accountant by testing into the profession and, after...

Scott Belsky didn’t drop out of college, didn’t go straight into being an entrepreneur – he had an idea about what a certain group of custom...

The Consumer Electronics Show, CES, is how tech starts the year. It’s a massive event in Vegas with halls full of booths, wall-to-wall peopl...

Wellness, fitness, nutrition – all of it is getting a makeover in this age of mobile tech. Now you can book doctor appointments on an app, g...

The economy is in a very odd place right now. The overall numbers are great in the United States. Unemployment is low, growth is decent, sev...

When Intel found itself without a CEO, the board of directors turned to Bob Swan, the chief financial officer, to keep the company running....

As 2018 draws to a close, a panel of journalists looks back at some of the defining controversies of the year. Digital data became a flashpo...

Keith Block spent a long career at Oracle before joining Salesforce five years ago. This summer he became co-CEO alongside Marc Benioff, the...

Andy Jassy started the cloud business at Amazon, and still runs it. As AWS re:Invent, Amazon's annual cloud conference, I talked to him abou...

Max Levchin learned to write code out of necessity. His mother's necessity, specifically. Levchin co-founded PayPal, reaped a windfall from...

KIND Snacks today is a business valued in the billions of dollars, but this wasn't Daniel Lubetzky's first food company. That would be Peace...

The theme this week is "underdogs." John Chen has history in this department: His parents escaped communist China to Hong Kong, and his fath...